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2 Chronicles 25:21

AmaziahJoashBeth-shemesh

19 You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

20 But Amaziah would not listen, for this had come from God in order to deliver them into the hand of Jehoash, because they had sought the gods of Edom.

So Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.

22 And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his own home.

23 There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.

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BSB
So Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
KJV
So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
WEB
So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
ASV
So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
DARBY
And Joash king of Israel went up; and they looked one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
BLB
And Joash king of Israel went out, and they looked one another in the faces—he and Amaziah king of Judah—at Beth-shemesh, which [is] unto Judah.
ÅB
Da dro Israels konge Joas opp, og han og Judas konge Amasja prøvde styrke med hverandre ved Bet-Semes, som hører til Juda.
OTB
Så dro Joasj, kongen av Israel, opp, og han og Amasja, kongen av Juda, møtte hverandre ved Bet-Shemesh, som tilhører Juda.
B1930
Da drog Israels konge Joas op, og han og Judas konge Amasja prøvde styrke med hverandre ved Bet-Semes, som hører til Juda.

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Cross references

  • Joshua 21:16

    Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.

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  • 1 Samuel 6:19–20

    But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.

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  • 1 Samuel 6:9

    but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”

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